Okay, so now here's a little pickle. I'm the spouse of an EU citizen, planning to visit family in Europe. I applied for a Schengen visa for 35 days (16th Aug - 19th Sep) and received exactly that from the Embassy of Italy in Santiago, Chile. But... they set the visa validity until 16th FEB 2015! (I put 35 days because those are my upcoming travel dates and I truthfully mentioned those on the application form.. should've put 90 =/)
I'll use up 20 of my days in Aug-Sep but want to visit again in December for over 30 days so more than 35 in total...
Naive of me to assume that they would issue a longer duration visa considering that my past two visas have been 6 month validity 90 day visas (but issued in San Fransisco USA and New Delhi India).
Now, the problem is that we were planning to visit family in December again for Christmas and New Years. The current visa allows only 35 days of stay. So what should I do?
- Ask for the visa to be corrected right now?
- Apply for a new visa after I am back on 19th Sep?
- Try to extend this visa once I am in Schengen land in December? (I don't even know if this is possible.. a schengen-wide extension or a national extension.. plus all offices will be closed during Christmas/New Years so doesn't look like a very good option)
For what it's worth I applied with:
- my passport
- copy of marriage certificate
- copy of spouse's passport
I just don't understand why they can't issue a longer validity 90 days/180 days visa. We visit Europe often and I have to circle the embassy every 6 months and this time, twice in 6 months =/
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